The Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal recently released their 2014 Index of Economic Freedom. Usually, such lists never really catch my attention. I have little interest in them, considering the sources especially.However, Ron Paul, in a recent episode...
Month: January 2014
The US Wager on Moderate Islam in Syria an Utter Failure
by Dmitry Minin | Jan 22, 2014 | Featured Articles
On the eve of the international Middle East peace conference scheduled to take place January 22 in Geneva, the situation in Syria has again abruptly taken a turn for the worse. Various groups of Islamists have entered into a fierce armed conflict. Casualties on both...
Radicals in Riots? 'Euromaidan Failed to Separate From Neo-Nazis'
by harley | Jan 22, 2014 | The Liberty Report
RPI Academic advisor John Laughland gives us the real story behind those "democracy" protests in Ukraine:
How Dare They Invite Iran to The Syria Peace Conference!
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 21, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon had the temerity Monday to invite Iran to participate in the "Geneva II" conference on the ongoing crisis in Syria. Though one might believe Iran has a legitimate interest in a conflict right in its neighborhood, the US refused to...
Iran, Syria and the Tragicomedy of U.S. Foreign Policy
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 21, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
As the Joint Plan of Action and Geneva II diplomatic initiatives, dealing with Iran and Syria, respectively, RPI academic advisor Hillary Mann Leverett speaks with Scott Horton for Pacifica Radio with words of caution to those who think the new Senate bill imposing...
Warfare, Welfare, and Wonder Woman — How Congress Spends Your Money
by Ron Paul | Jan 21, 2014 | Featured Articles
Supporters of warfare, welfare, and Wonder Woman cheered last week as Congress passed a one trillion dollar “omnibus” appropriation bill. This legislation funds the operations of government for the remainder of the fiscal year. Wonder Woman fans can cheer that buried...
American Fascism
by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. | Jan 20, 2014 | Featured Articles
This talk was delivered at the 2014 Mises Circle in Houston, Texas.We know about the transformation of the American police, with their paramilitary equipment, their SWAT team raids, and incentive to terrorize people over drug offenses rather than pursue crimes against...
Foreign Aid is a Real Joke
by Joseph Salerno | Jan 20, 2014 | Featured Articles
Jane Bussman is a British comedienne who moved to Los Angeles in the late 1990s. She wrote for a number of TV shows, including South Park, for a while. She then drifted into celebrity journalism interviewing the likes of Anna Nicole Smith, Britney Spears, and Aston...
Ron Paul Rewind: Battling The Surveillance State Back In 1984
by Chris Rossini | Jan 20, 2014 | The Liberty Report
As of last year, the mischief of the surveillance state finally made it onto the public radar. President Obama’s recent speech describing the new NSA “reforms” displayed very clearly that he and the government are not backing down. Government sees this merely as a PR...
Ron Paul: Congress’ Failure to Check Executive Branch Would Astound Founders
by Adam Dick | Jan 19, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
"I’m sure the Founders would be astounded," says RPI Chairman and Founder Ron Paul, "that this responsibility of the Congress to keep the executive branch in check was given up so easily."Speaking with Charles Goyette on Friday during their weekly podcast, Paul...
Krauthammer Agrees with Paul on Obama’s NSA Reform Speech — Sort Of
by Adam Dick | Jan 19, 2014 | Neocon Watch
Columnist Charles Krauthammer says he agrees with RPI Chairman and Founder Ron Paul — "the ACLU and Ron Paul are right" — that President Barack Obama’s mass spying reform speech Friday is “90-percent smoke and mirrors and very little substantive change.” The catch is...
Obama’s NSA Speech: What Reform?
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 18, 2014 | Featured Articles
Speaking from a set that could have been designed by Leni Riefenstahl, President Obama yesterday informed us that not only does our freedom depend on the work of spies, but the very birth of our republic was dependent on the same kind of surveillance network that so...
Breaking: Obama Declares NSA ‘Reforms’ While Dismissing Influence Of Snowden Leaks
by Jonathan Turley | Jan 18, 2014 | Featured Articles
I just listened to the NSA speech by President Obama and as expected there is precious little in terms of real change. For civil libertarians, it is a nothing burger served hot and with a sympathetic smile. It is much of the same. Another review board composed of...
Kerry’s Geneva II Delusions
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 18, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Secretary of State John Kerry is in a bind. The US claims that the purpose of its two-plus year covert and overt support for rebels in Syria is to establish democracy in that country. But to get there the US has backed an artificially cemented together gaggle of...
Charles Krauthammer Demands Sincerity From A War President
by Chris Rossini | Jan 17, 2014 | Neocon Watch
Neocon warmonger Charles Krauthammer is up in arms, furiously attacking President Obama’s sincerity in conducting the war in Afghanistan. Krauthammer starts by quoting the just released book from former Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates: By early 2011, writes former...
You Can’t Opt Out: 10 NSA Myths Debunked
by Peter van Buren | Jan 17, 2014 | Featured Articles
The debate Edward Snowden envisioned when he revealed the extent of National Security Agency (NSA) spying on Americans has taken a bad turn. Instead of a careful examination of what the NSA does, the legality of its actions, what risks it takes for what gains, and how...
Ron Paul on the “Total Failure” of US Intervention in Iraq
by Adam Dick | Jan 16, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Speaking with Charles Goyette during their weekly podcast conversation on Friday, RPI Chairman and Founder Ron Paul details the “total failure” of the United States government’s decades-long intervention in Iraq. Paul also addresses the George W. Bush Administration’s...
War with Iran? New Sanctions? RPI’s McAdams and Jay Taylor Discuss
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 15, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Daniel and Jay discuss Syria and Iran. Why are the neocons so obsessed? Why is the US so paranoid about Iran? What about the trade deal between Russia and Iran?
Who’s To Blame For More Violence Against Afghan Women?
by Bretigne Shaffer | Jan 14, 2014 | Featured Articles
The plight of Afghan women is in the news again. In December, Reuters warned that "(a)larm rises for Afghan women prisoners after Western troops leave," and Macleans published a plea from Afghan parliamentarian and women’s rights advocate Fawzia Koofi, for Western...
RPI’s McAdams and Tom Woods: Fallujah, Iran Sanctions, Back-to-Iraqers, and More
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 14, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Listen to RPI's Daniel McAdams on the Tom Woods Show today, taking apart Iraq, Iran, al-Qaeda, and the neocons who are still having their way with US foreign policy.
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